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Bilingual Live Captions

by irvingdp · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 19 Oct 2026

Live bilingual captions for any tab: the original line and its translation, from your own Gemini or Deepgram + DeepL key.

Users
74
+54 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#95K
#79K among extensions
Version
1.3.0
updated 31 Aug 2026

Users

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03774Aug 2026Oct 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 19 Oct 2026: 74 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

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About Bilingual Live Captions

Bilingual Live Captions puts a two-line caption over any video you are watching: the original speech on top, its translation underneath. BEFORE YOU INSTALL • You need your own API key. This extension has no subscription and no server of its own — it uses your key to talk to the provider directly. A free Google AI Studio key is enough to start. The interface follows Chrome's language: English or Traditional Chinese. TWO WAYS TO RUN IT • Gemini live translate 3.5 (default) — one Google API key. A single connection sends the tab audio and returns both the original text and the translation. 78 target languages; the source language is detected automatically. • Deepgram Nova-3 + DeepL — two keys. Speech recognition advances word by word, so the original line grows as the speaker talks, and each finished line is translated separately. WHAT YOU CAN ADJUST • 1, 2 or 3 caption rows • Separate font sizes for the original and the translation • Caption box width, background opacity, distance from the bottom • Maximum and minimum line length (Deepgram mode) • Everything applies live, while captions are running WHERE IT WORKS YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ and ordinary HTML5 video on any https page, including fullscreen. PRIVACY No analytics, no telemetry, no server of ours. Your keys stay in local Chrome storage on this device. Tab audio goes straight from your browser to the provider you picked. Full policy: https://github.com/irvingdp/live-translator-chrome-ext/blob/main/PRIVACY.md Note on the free Gemini tier: Google uses free-tier input to improve its products and human reviewers may read it, and the free tier is not available in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland. Use a paid key or Deepgram + DeepL for sensitive content. Not affiliated with Google, Deepgram, or DeepL.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+18+32.1%00.00
30 days+54+270.0%00.00

Version history

4 versions recorded
1.3.031 Aug 2026
1.2.028 Aug 2026
1.1.023 Aug 2026
1.0.011 Aug 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
11 Aug 2026
Size
226 KB
Languages
en, zh-TW
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Extension ID
ehgfnhdncllgdojcgchaehioknjloikn

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
activeTaboffscreensidePanelscriptingstoragetabCapture
Site access
https://api.deepgram.com/*https://api.deepl.com/*https://api-free.deepl.com/*https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*

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